Google Nears Microsoft Value After Hot Quarter

Apple Maps vs. Google maps: Which is better for DC navigating? Washington Post (1) I like Google's multi-colored indicators of traffic congestion. The roadway goes from green to black, depending on the flow of traffic. Apple Maps shows me a much more limited spectrum of pain, with a dotted red line and a slightly lighter, orangey ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Performs More Spring Cleaning for Lesser-Used Features PC Magazine Google's grabbing its digital broom and starting up another round of spring cleaning for the features, services, and apps its patrons no longer use with great frequency. On the chopping block this go-around: Spreadsheet gadgets, the Android app "Places ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Field Trip shows the most interesting things around you NBCNews.com (blog) Google's new Field Trip app is a virtual local tour guide that's always running in the background. It pops up interesting local information — from local history and architecture to the best restaurants and shopping — without you having to ask for it ... See all stories on this topic »

Google adds movie trailers to search results Digital Trends Detailed on Google's official Google+ account this week, the search company has added links to movie trailers when a user searches for information regarding showtimes at local theaters. In order to bring up these listings, the user uses a search term ... See all stories on this topic » Digital Trends

Google EMD Update: Exact Match Domains No Longer Rank As Well Search Engine Roundtable Late Friday afternoon, Google's head of search spam, Matt Cutts, dropped a bomb on some webmasters and SEOs. He announced on Twitter that Google is going after "low quality" exact match domains (EMD) to ensure they do not rank well in the Google ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Brazil head's arrest stirs YouTube debate Newsday RIO DE JANEIRO - The arrest of a top Google executive is reviving a debate about Brazilian laws that hold services such as YouTube responsible for the videos posted on them, making the country a hotbed of attempts to stifle digital content. Legal ... See all stories on this topic » Newsday

Google and Asus may be building a $100 Nexus tablet Digital Trends If you're wanting to buy a Nexus 7 then now is the time to do it because Google's still offering a $25 credit for Google Play with tablet purchase. But if you can wait until Christmas there may be a brand new, even cheaper Nexus tablet to get your ... See all stories on this topic » Digital Trends

Pink UFOs Show Up On Texas and New Mexico Google Street Views Huffington Post If you use Google street view to get directions to Jacksonville, Texas, a glance into the sky reveals none other than...a good old fashioned pink UFO. That's what Andrea Dove recently discovered when she signed on to the popular online address tool to ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's self-guided car could drive the next wave of unemployment The Guardian Governor Brown signed the bill at Google's HQ in Mountain View. This was good PR on his part, but it also made sense because Google has led the charge into autonomous (aka driverless) vehicles. For several years, Toyota Prius hybrids that have been ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Nears Microsoft Value After Hot Quarter

Google headed toward its biggest quarterly rally in seven years—up 30% through Thursday, or nearly five times the surge in the S&P 500. It is now within striking distance of unseating Microsoft as the third-largest U.S. company by market value.

Google Pounces on Apple Map Problems Wall Street Journal Within hours of Mr. Cook's act of contrition, Google—whose mapping software Apple had kicked off its iPhone and iPad devices—published a blog post explaining how consumers can still use Google Maps on the iPhone through the Web browser. See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

Google can't enforce German Microsoft injunction: ruling Reuters SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled that Google Inc's Motorola Mobility unit cannot enforce a patent injunction that it obtained against Microsoft Corp in Germany, diminishing Google's leverage in the ongoing smartphone ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Relents, Takes Down Controversial Video in Brazil Fox News Google does not agree with the judge who found the video clips violate Brazilian election laws that forbid personal criticism of candidates during an election, the Washington Post is reporting. While the offensive video was reportedly removed by the ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Is Nearing Microsoft's Value Wall Street Journal Google headed toward its biggest quarterly rally in seven years-up 30% through Thursday, or about four times the surge in the S&P 500. It is now within striking distance of unseating Microsoft as the third-largest U.S. company by market value. Photo ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

Forget Facebook: Google shares on a tear, gaining on Microsoft Los Angeles Times While shares of rival Facebook continue to struggle, Google's stock has taken off this quarter, up about 30%. Analysts say investors are shrugging off concerns about a decline in how much advertisers are paying every time users click on their ads, and ... See all stories on this topic »

Taking Google's Field Trip app for a spin: Watch out for the potholes PCWorld With a new Android app called Field Trip, Google wants to be your tour guide for all things local. The app runs in the background on Android devices (an iOS version is coming soon) and suggests things to see and do based on your location. Field Trip ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple IOS 6 moves toward a Google-free future Bluefield Daily Telegraph Gone from iOS 6 are two formerly built-in Google apps that were integral to previous versions of the operating system: Google Maps and YouTube. (The latter, at least, can be reinstalled from the App Store.) Google's search capability is still there ... See all stories on this topic »

Wolverton: Sony's Google TV device is better but still not good enough San Jose Mercury News Sony's new Google TV device is better than its predecessors, but it still leaves a lot to be desired. Google TV is the search engine giant's software for smart TVs and digital set-top boxes. Based on the same Android operating system used in many ... See all stories on this topic »

UFO Sighting in Texas? Does Google Street View of Jacksonville, Texas Show ... ABC News Published on Sep 28, 2012 by ABCNews. People in Jacksonville, Texas, are trying to figure out what Google street view captured in the sky. For more on this story, click here: http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/ufo-lens-flare-google-street-view-decide. See all stories on this topic »

Samsung looks to acquisitions to better take on Apple, Google CNET Reuters reported Thursday that the Korean electronics giant will be buying its way into a better competitive position with Apple, Google, and Amazon in the digital-content space, particularly in the music market, which is worth nearly $9 billion. "The ... See all stories on this topic »

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iOS Maps: 5 Reasons Apple Broke With Google And Built Its Own App Huffington Post Google Maps For Android Was Getting Better Than The iOS Version. http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/25/3407614/apple-over-a-year-left-on-google-maps-contract-google-maps-ios-app">Chris Ziegler of The Verge

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A New Google App Gives You Local Information — Before You Ask for It New York Times (blog) Google, along with other companies and researchers, dreams of so-called ubiquitous computing or ambient intelligence — computers woven into the texture of life as opposed to being separate machines. Eventually, the theory goes, computers will be part ... See all stories on this topic »

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Google obeys Brazilian court order, blocks YouTube political video
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Appeals exhausted, Google obeys censorship order. * Google Brazil chief faced arrest for non-compliance. * Court decision violates free-speech ideal, Coelho says. RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The Brazilian unit of Google (GOOG.O), the world's No.
See all stories on this topic » Google Street View dives into the deep blue sea
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Google Street View has taken us on virtual trips to the South Pole, the Amazon forest, inside some of the world's greatest museums, and to the Kennedy Space Center -- but it has never taken us underwater, until now. This week Google debuted 360-degree ...
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Google's Schmidt Horses Around With Psy Wall Street Journal (blog) By Evan Ramstad. Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt came to South Korea to meet executives at the biggest makers of Android smartphones – Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Co. – but wound up also getting a dance lesson from Psy, whose ... See all stories on this topic »

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Brazil Detains Google Chief over Anti-Islam YouTube Clip
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The arrest of Google executive Fabio Jose Silva Coelho was announced in Säo Paulo. A press release issued by the federal police said he was not expected to remain in jail and should be released later in the day after signing a document promising to ...
See all stories on this topic » Google Autonomous Cars Get Green Light In California
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At Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters Tuesday, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that allows driverless cars to operate on the state's roads. Google is perhaps the highest profile company working on cars that drive themselves ...
See all stories on this topic » Google and Asus rumored to be working on $99 Nexus Tablet
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The problem is that Google would likely have to be losing a pretty penny on the cost of each tablet to sell them at such a price, or the specs would have to be scaled down to a point where they could risk sullying the good name of Android Jelly Bean, ...
See all stories on this topic » Google's 14th birthday: 14 years to a cultural phenomenon
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In the time it would take to raise a teenager with a mouthful of braces, Google has managed to single-handedly transform our culture. We use it to research our business competitors, settle bar bets, bookmark recipes, check our email, plot driving ...
See all stories on this topic » Google Apps drops download support for older Office formats
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Google announced Wednesday that Google Apps users will no longer be able to export word processing, spreadsheet and presentation documents as files using older Microsoft Office formats, such as .doc, .xls and .ppt. Users of the search giant's consumer ...
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Google's Brazil chief detained in YouTube case CBS News (AP) RIO DE JANEIRO - Google Inc.'s head of operations in Brazil was detained by the country's federal police Wednesday after the company failed to heed a judge's order to take down YouTube videos that the court ruled violate Brazilian electoral law. See all stories on this topic » CBS News

Apple-Google deal took a wrong turn over directions, report says CNET Apple executives also wanted to include Google's turn-by-turn-navigation service in the iPhone -- a feature popular with Android users because it lets people treat their phones as in-car GPS devices. Google wouldn't allow it, according to people on ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Maps Shows Underwater Sights InformationWeek On Tuesday, Google introduced the first underwater panoramic images to Google Maps. Brian McClendon, VP of Google Maps and Earth, characterized the occasion as "the next step in our quest to provide people with the most comprehensive, accurate, and ...  世界四五處 See all stories on this topic »

Driverless cars now street legal in California UPI.com (blog) To put that more plainly, Google — one of the largest and most innovative companies in the state, and now the fifth largest in the US – used its considerable wealth and charm to nudge the state legislature in Sacramento into letting it test its fleet ... See all stories on this topic » UPI.com (blog)

Samsung, Google execs to meet amid Apple patent wars CNET (blog) Samsung's Shin Jong-kyun will meet with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt in Seoul tomorrow, and it's a safe bet the topic of Apple will come up. The Samsung mobile chief confirmed today that he will meet with Schmidt on Thursday in Seoul, ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Play Store Downloads Surpass 25 Billion InformationWeek The Google Play Store, which is Google's equivalent of the Apple iTunes App Store, has reached a significant milestone: 25 billion total downloads. Google announced the achievement Wednesday, and said the total number of apps available for download ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's wind-powered data center San Francisco Chronicle (blog) The amount of electricity sucked down by data centers has been one of the tech world's dirty little non-secrets for years. Packed with equipment running nonstop, data centers can use more energy than many small towns. And they're only as green as the ... See all stories on this topic » San Francisco Chronicle (blog)

Google patches 24 Chrome bugs, pays out $29K to bounty hunters Computerworld Although Google announced a Windows 8 version of Chrome -- one that will include not just a desktop browser for that traditional UI, but also one for what was formerly called the "Metro" environment -- in mid-June, it has not shifted the latter from ... See all stories on this topic »

O'Brien: Apple and Google stock price explosion reflects their dominance San Jose Mercury News You've been hearing a lot about Apple's stock-smashing records. But with far less fanfare, Google's stock has also begun to roar, reaching an all-time high this week. We may think of Google and Apple as fierce competitors, but investors have made ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Maps for Android: 4 hidden features Computerworld (blog) With all the talk over Google Maps and iOS right now, I thought it'd be a good time to take a look at Google Maps for Android and a handful of hidden features you might not know exist. Google Maps Labs As it does with many products, Google maintains an ... See all stories on this topic »

自由時報的文中已無Google廣告 Google Maps

高德軟件副總裁楊永琦表示，位置信息已經成為重要的數據資，隨蘋果iOS與谷歌Andriod平台競爭加劇，蘋果顯然不希望競爭對手得到自家用戶的數據。他認為，蘋果推出地圖服務是“不得不做的決定”。 目前，移動互聯網領域的很多商務、社交等活動都基於位置而發生，而承載這些服務的平台便是地圖。地圖服務衍生出來的一系列的定位服務以及廣告，已經成為新的贏利點。 多位國內移動互聯網業內人士日前在新浪Xtalk沙龍上表示，移動地圖有望成為移動互聯網的一個新入口，成為各種移動服務的承載平台。 早有蓄謀 對於推出地圖服務，蘋果似乎早有蓄謀。2009年10月，蘋果通過併購網絡地圖公司Placebase首次涉足地圖業務，並在隨後兩年裡先後併購地圖公司Poly9和3D地圖技術公司C3 Technologies。 此次推出地圖服務，蘋果前後佈局雖然只有3年之久，但在楊永琦看來已經取得了不錯的成績。“蘋果在這麼短的時間內，就推出了全球性的地圖服務實際上已經相當不錯。”他指出，地圖是一種區域性很強的服務，需要長時間的數據和技術積累。 谷歌地圖已經研發數年，除了購買現有的商業數據之外，谷歌已經在數據採集、街景等方面走在了前列。同時，谷歌地圖的人力資源投入也要遠遠超過蘋果。 據美國科技博客BusinessInsider報導，谷歌地圖擁有7000多名員工，其中包括1100名全職員工和6000名合同工，而蘋果地圖團隊的員工可能只有上百名。 為了更進一步完善自家的地圖服務，蘋果公司正在大量挖角谷歌公司地圖員工。但有業內人士認為，即使蘋果公司可以挖到有經驗的工程師，也不可能在短時間內超越谷歌地圖。 一個有意思的問題是，谷歌地圖還有機會重回iOS平台嗎？答案可能是不會了。 谷歌董事長施密特昨天在日本向媒體表示，谷歌沒有向App Store提交iOS版谷歌地圖應用。他說：“要是蘋果公司繼續使用谷歌地圖，就不會出現這麼糟糕的局面了。難道要谷歌再逼蘋果換回來？駟馬難追。”  Schmidt: Apple Should Have Kept Google Maps Google's popular mapping application likely won't migrate to Apple's iPhone 5 anytime soon, the search giant's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said.  The New York Times-Apple’s Feud With Google Is Now Felt on iPhone 原本預料，谷歌已針對iOS 6系統開發新版的谷歌地圖app，但根據路透社報導，目前人正在東京參加Nexus 7平板電腦上市活動的谷歌執行董事長艾瑞克‧施密特（Eric Schmidt）鄭重否認，谷歌並沒有針對iPhone 5開發地圖app。 曾是哥倆好的蘋果與谷歌，在2007年蘋果發表第一支iPhone時，谷歌曾站台相挺；之後陸續推出的iPhone手機，都內建有谷歌地圖和YouTube app。 但是谷歌推出Android系統後，這段關係開始產生了質變。 先是宣布iPhone手機不再搭載YouTube app，隨後谷歌推出新的YouTube app，在App Store上架。 但是這次的情況不盡相同，先前蘋果並未推出與YouTube類似的產品，與谷歌正面衝突；這次蘋果卻決定推出自行開發的地圖系統。 以目前蘋果地圖錯誤百出的結果看來，谷歌似乎佔了上風，這等於是為谷歌地圖做了一次免費的宣傳。 今天注意到自由時報的文中已無Google廣告  為什麼說Nexus 7比iPad更勝一籌？ 搭載安卓糖豆操作系統的Nexus 7平板電腦使用起來輕便舒適，響應靈敏，語音識別功能獨特，性價比勝出iPad一籌。 谷歌眼鏡試用體驗 谷歌公司將於明年推出超酷的智能眼鏡，但想讓用戶扔掉手機，戴上眼鏡，谷歌眼鏡還有很多方面需要完善。
德國法院﹕三星和摩托羅拉未侵犯蘋果專利權 德國一家法院週五裁定三星電子和谷歌子公司摩托羅拉移動公司未侵犯蘋果公司的一項專利﹐從而使多款三星和摩托羅拉智能手機免遭禁售厄運。Google Working on Maps for iPhone, iPad New York Times (blog) Google is developing a maps application for iPhone and iPad that it is seeking to finish by the end of the year, according to people involved with the effort who declined to be named because of the nature of their work. There has been widespread ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times (blog)
Google's Sergey Brin: robotic cars available to general public within 5 years CNET (blog) Google has already put in 300,000 miles of testing with its self-driving cars. Brin said the company will focus on improving sensors and hardware failure support for the technology. He said any obstacles for the technology will be the same as any ... See all stories on this topic »
Judge orders arrest of president of Google's operation in Brazil Washington Post RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian judge ordered the arrest of the head of Google's operations in Brazil for failure to remove YouTube videos that attacked a mayoral candidate, which runs counter to the South American nation's strict pre-vote electoral laws. See all stories on this topic »
Google would like to snag Yahoo search deal from Microsoft CNET The search saga between Google and Yahoo may not be over after all. Under a search-ad partnership proposed in 2008, Yahoo would have placed Google ads on some Yahoo search results, and the companies would have shared resulting revenue. See all stories on this topic »
Google-backed survey brings new depth to Great Barrier Reef NBCNews.com (blog) In partnership with Google, the Seaview Survey has been mounting a series of expeditions to capture high-resolution imagery of the Great Barrier Reef and other coral reef locales. It's sponsored by Catlin Group Ltd., a global insurance group. The ... See all stories on this topic »
Trading at Noon: Google soars to new all-time high Reuters ... inappropriate. Loading... Alert icon. Sign in or sign up now! Alert icon. Loading... Published on Sep 25, 2012 by ReutersVideo. Sep 25 - Google jumps to $764/share as sales of its new Nexus tablet begin in Japan, and Yahoo looks ahead with Mayer's ... See all stories on this topic »
Google's in great shape vs. Facebook: analyst MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Two Internet rivals were pulled in opposite directions by traders on Monday, as Google set a new high while Facebook slid nearly 10% — tripping the Nasdaq's circuit-breaker rule designed to prevent runaway short selling. See all stories on this topic »
On Obama, free speech, Google, the anti-Muslim video and the UN San Francisco Chronicle (blog) President Obama again walked the line of free speech again when he addressed the United Nations. The challenge is when he discussed the anti-Muslim film that was produced in the U.S. and distributed through YouTube. It is, as Obama said, “disgusting” ... See all stories on this topic » San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Google Chrome 22 Offers 3D Gaming, 24 Bug Fixes eWeek The new Google Chrome Browser Version 22 includes a key improvement aimed at making 3D gaming enthusiasts happier – a Pointer Lock JavaScript API (also called Mouse Lock) that will allow more accurate gaming while using a computer mouse. See all stories on this topic » eWeek
Google offers new browser benchmark for WebApps Computerworld IDG News Service - Recognizing that developers are working with an increasing number of browser technologies to build their Web applications, Google engineers, along with contributors from other companies, have posted a new test suite for browsers. See all stories on this topic » I Love My iPhone but I Love Google Maps Just as Much Huffington Post Monday Night Football was starting in half an hour. I was tired and wanted to get home to see the game. A steak and the grill waited for me. Problem was, several miles of bumper-to-bumper traffic stood between me and where I wanted to be. In my pre ... See all stories on this topic » Google, Gmail blocked as Iran pushes 'national Internet' Los Angeles Times TEHRAN -- Iran has shut off access to Google and Gmail inside the country, a step eyed by Web activists with concern as the nation's leaders seek to wall off a corner of cyberspace separate from the global Internet. As of Monday, Iranians received an ... See all stories on this topic » Google Shares Hit Record Highs; Citi Says Rally Ain't Over Wall Street Journal (blog) And we believe Google shares can rise materially higher over the next 12 months,” Citi analyst Mark Mahaney wrote in a note to clients over the weekend, while boosting his price target to $850 from $740. Shares recently rose 1.9% to $747.71, bucking ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal (blog) Tale of two web stocks: Google soars as Facebook flops NBCNews.com (blog) The headwinds that faced Google a few months ago, including trouble associated with its acquisition of Motorola and a potential threat to its advertising revenue from Facebook, have dissipated, he said. If Facebook can prove it can make money from ... See all stories on this topic » Google Fiber's gigabit gamble has implications far beyond KC Kansas City Star The tech behemoth's grand gamble here — due to launch in homes near Westport and State Line roads next month — could determine whether Google or other companies bother to super-wire other cities. Any encores, tech industry analysts say, require a ... See all stories on this topic » Google updates Android books app to match rivals CNET (blog) Other updates help bring Google Play Books to parity with rival apps from Apple, Amazon and others. A dictionary feature allows users to define a words with a tap; highlights and notes can now be added to the app as well -- and they'll synchronize ... See all stories on this topic » Google offers new tools, support for startups Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal (blog) Startup Weekend at Google in Mountain View kicked off the company's new push to partner and offer tools to help entrepreneurs create new businesses. The event attracted more than 100 people who worked together to create viable businesses from scratch ... See all stories on this topic » Google News Turns 10 Years Old PC Magazine "Google News broke new ground in news aggregation by gathering links in real time, grouping articles by story and ranking stories based on the editorial opinions of publishers worldwide," Bharat wrote. "Linking to a diverse set of sources for any given ... See all stories on this topic » Apple 'targeting Google talent' after Maps debacle Digital Spy Citing a "source with connections on both teams", TechCrunch reports that Apple is pursuing a strategy of luring away people who worked on the Google Maps product to boost its own system. Alongside offering lucrative contracts, Apple is also said to be ... See all stories on this topic » Google Also Stars in New Vince Vaughn Film NBC Southern California (blog) Google is featured in the new film "The Internship," a Hollywood comedy about jobless, tech-challenged 40-year-olds competing for a Google internship. The Twentieth Century Fox film script was originally written by Vince Vaughn, who now stars in the ... See all stories on this topic »

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